geanticline
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geanticline (plural geanticlines)
- (geology, geography) A large-scale anticline; a large upward lift in the earth's surface.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 119:
- As the geanticline rose upwards, nappes glided off like slicks from the back of an emerging whale.